UNITED STATES v. McNEIL

No. 12235.

401 F.2d 527 (1968)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Carl McNEIL, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 27, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin R. Manning, Richmond, Va. (Court-appointed counsel) [McCaul & Pearsall, Richmond, Va., on brief], for appellant.

Michael Morchower, Asst. U. S. Atty. (C. V. Spratley, Jr., U. S. Atty., on brief), for appellee.

Before BRYAN, WINTER and CRAVEN, Circuit Judges.


CRAVEN, Circuit Judge:

We are constrained to hold on the facts of this case that the order to report for induction issued by Local Board No. 84, Norfolk, Virginia, to Carl McNeil was valid, and that McNeil's conviction for subsequently refusing to be inducted was without error.

McNeil was most recently classified on August 3, 1966. For several years prior to that time, McNeil, a Jehovah's Witness, and officials of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society had...

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